I am Ta-Wei Yeh

Engineer,Roboticist,Programmer,Dreamer

Name: Ta-Wei Yeh

Profile: Doctoral of Philosophy

Email: twy359.at.tamu.edu

Phone: (607) 379-4178

Skills & Interests

Lauguages: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English

Programming: C/C++, C#, Matlab, Python, ROS, Verilog, HTML

Honors: Enterprise Award (Cornell, Ithaca), Academic Excellent Award (NTNU, Taiwan), Excellent Student Award (NTNU, Taiwan), 3rd place in MechaHeroesTaiwan competition (NTNU, Taiwan)

Prototyping: Solidworks, 3D printing, circuits design, soldering

Musical Instruments: Violin

About me

I am currently the Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. I earned my master degree from Cornell University of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

I have eight projects implemented in Linux with various software programming languages like C++, C#, MATLAB, Python, and ROS. My works include software architecture design and from hardware to software, hands-on to algorithm design, including SLAM and PID. One of them include computer vision for balloon tracking. Another one has cooperated numerous sensors, mapping ability, and more features conducted with hands-on skills to make the robot explore an unknown maze.

All my projects had been solved and achieved through teamwork. I am an excellent team player. I was the vice president in Electrical Engineering Student Association and a leader in my undergraduate final project.

Experience

Here is my experience.


Research on AI acceleration for neural network and real-time operating systems under the advise from Professor Jan Jan, Wu. We aim to accelerate particle filer visual localization utilizing TensorFlow (software) and Google Edge-TPU (hardware). Updating CNN for higher image resolution input, efficient localization convergence, and better localize accuracy.
— July 2020 ~ June 2021


Corning


A 2019 summer intern at Corning Incorporate. Responsible for modern process control that integrates two motion controllers. Synchronized two controllers, XYZ machine and six-degree-of-freedom robotic arm and communicated in less time legacy. I finished the assignments on time and even caught up with the previously delayed schedule. I work well under pressure and with teams.
— July~Aug. 2019


A Cornell researcher in Human-Robot Swarm project, advised by Kirstin Petersen. Increased three software features on the rover. Document rover components and software instructions for future additional rovers. Speed up the project process for the coming paper publish.
— June 2019



Education

Here are the schools I attended.



Doctoral of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Selected Coursework: Probability for Information Science, Pattern Recognition, Linear Multivariable Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Online Decision and Learning
  • Working with Professor Xingyong Song on sensor and robot mutual assistance.




Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Worked with Professor Kirstin Petersen for Master of Engineering project.
  • Enterprise Award at Makeathon February, 2020. See Project
  • ECE 5725 Embedded Operating System Final Project. Our balloon tracking vehicle remarked as one of the best projects and was placed in the exhibition.
  • Accomplished 7 projects, including robotics (SLAM), parallel computing, and machine learning


Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering

  • Vice President of Electrical Engineering Student Association Junior
  • General Coordinator of the Week of Electrical Engineering Sophomore
  • General Coordinator of Training Camp of Reintegration Services-Entertainment Program Junior
  • Academic Excellent Award Oct. 21, 2014
  • Excellent Student Award Apr. 14, 2016
  • Production and Application of Delta Robot Manipulator :
    Third place of the first MechaHerosTaiwan on Dec. 23, 2016



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Projects

Various projects which consist of robotics, controls, and hands-on designs.

Artemis Nano Bluetooth App.

ECE3400 / 10 June 2020

Designed an Android application (Cellphone) connect with Artemis Nano via bluetooth connection (UART). Artemis Nano act as a server passively waiting to be connected from Android devices (Clients). This Android App could send messages using the UART service. Messages include three options, text, gyroscope reading, and two virtual joystick reading.

Position: Software Engineer
Programming Lauguage: Java/ Arduino
See Project

Makeathon

Smart Cap / 03 Feb. 2020

We Awarded as the 2nd place among 20 teams. In one day, we created a smart cap which provided 360 detection danger from your blind spots. It provided physical alert to the user, e.g. LED and buzzer would activate when danger is around. I Contributed as a software and hardware engineer that devised the software architecture and wiring electrical components.

Position: Software Engineer
Programming Lauguage: Python
See Project

Human-Robot Swarm

MEng. Project / 19 June 2019

This project is guided by Professor Kirstin Petersen. Many experts envision situations where a group of non-expert humans must collaborate with robots, thus forming an ad-hoc human-robot swarm to accomplish a global, high-level task. Our Master of Engineering project build the first and second generation of the rovers for the four year project.

Position: Software Architect Designer
Programming Lauguage: Python

Autonomous Mobile Robot

MAE 5180 / 7 May 2019

Implement Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) on Roomba two-wheeled robot, iRobot Roomba. Design numerous algorithms, like Bi-rapidly random tree for path planning, particle filter for localization, Fast-SLAM, and etc. In the final competition, we actually realized the algorithms to reach waypoints using only depth camera for localization.

Position: Algorithm Engineer
Programming Lauguage: MATLAB

Parallel Computing

ECE 4750 / 7 May 2019

Realize parallel computingi in Floyd-Warshall and Dijkstra shortest path algorithms with parallel computing tools (Pthreads, Cuda), and serial computing. In the end, we concluded that using Cuda could have a speed-up up to 50 times faster than the serial computing.

Position: Software Engineer
Programming Lauguage: C, Pthread, OpenMP, MPI, Cuda

Physical Intelligent System

ECE 3400 / 12 Dec. 2018

Designed a multi-task autonomous robot featuring line following, wall detection, audio detection, visual treasure detection, robot collision avoidance, and maze mapping to explore the unknown maze. Implemented computer vision in Verilog for shape detection (80% success rate), using a OV7670 camera.

Position: Computer Vision Engineer
Programming Lauguage: Arduino
See Project

Embedded Operating System

ECE 5725 / 08 Dec. 2018

Designed an autonomous ball tracking vehicle equipped with an R-Pi camera and an R-Pi. Used multi-processing to handle image processing and motor control, with orders of magnitude improvement. Achieved PID control on motors for ball tracking where ball position is feedbacked from camera.

Position: Control/ Mechanical Engineer
Programming Lauguage: Python
See Project

Design of Auto-Guided Vehicle

Industry-Academia Cooperation / 02 Feb. 2018

Constructed an auto-guided vehicle to deliver meals and documents to employees for Yulon Motor, Taiwan. Integration of A* algorithm, fuzzy control, and AMCL for trajectory planning.

Position: Software Engineer
Programming Lauguage: C++

Vehicles Detection

Pattern Recognition Project / 25 Jan. 2018

Pattern recognition in automated vehicles to detect nearby presence of specific cars. Applied thresholding, dilation, erosion, segmentation, and tracking algorithm.

Position: Computer Vision Engineer
Programming Lauguage: C++

Production and Application of Delta Robot Manipulator

Undergraduate Final Project / 25 Dec. 2016

Made a delta robot walk by lifting itself upward and moving its stationary base forward. Programmed a GUI in C# and calculated delta robot kinematics and the torque. Won 3rd place in the first MechaHeroesTaiwan competition on Dec. 23, 2016, competing among 25 teams.

Position: Software Engineer
Programming Lauguage: C#, MATLAB
See Project

Skills

Here is what I can help you with.

Linux

I have four robotic projects that requires Linux operating system on Ubuntu or Raspbian. Also I took a shell-scripting online course on Udemy for projects use and personal learning.

Projects

As studying in Cornell University, there numerous projects and homework every semester. I have up to seven projects doing with robotics. Topics include SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), Serial/Parallel robotic arm, and hands-on two-wheeled robots.

Photography

Fascinated by space and galaxy, I'm fond of capturing photos of the Milky Way Galaxy in the sky. Also I have taken numerous photos on every of my travels. Please visit my blog for further interests.

Robotics

Making humans' life more efficient and effortless is part of engineering's responsibilities. I believe making robots are one of the technologies that lead to human's coming prosperity. Cornell ECE-4770 foundation of robotics, and MAE-5180 Autonomous Mobile Robot allowed me to have better knowledge on robotics and so as other robotic projects.

Sports

Open to various of sports, such as basketball, golf, skiing, and etc. I tried scuba-diving and SUP at the Cayuga Lake. Even sky-diving in the future. Feel free to share your story with me.

Teamwork

Most of my projects are consisted of more than three person which allowed me to cooperate, communicate, and nagotiate with every teammates. During the undergradute, attending clubs and being as a club vice president taught me how to lead or guide a team and pursue the same goal together.

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